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Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Ghiretti Francesca

The Birth and Evolution of the Chinese Question

China is the player that has undermined US world hegemony the most, challenging not only the international system that came into being after 1945, but also its founding values and their universal character.#In recent years, technology supply chains, and primarily semiconductors, have been at the center of competition between the United States and China. The geopolitical nature of the technological ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/2) Barbieri Marta, Valotti Giovanni

Public Administration and Meritocracy between Myth and Reality

For years the public administration has evoked the mantra of meritocracy, with great difficulty in concretely introducing it. This makes the public sector less attractive for more qualified people on the labor market, and produces a gradual demotivation of public employees. The attempt to introduce more meritocracy in the public administration has been reduced to the often distorted use of monetary ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Lanza Andrea, Simone Giuseppina, Luberto Gaetano

The Renewer’s Dilemma in the Management of Collective Turnover

The renewal of human capital in businesses represents a need that it both strategic and operational at the same time. There is no avoiding this issue, and the timeframe in which it takes place can have a significant impact not only on a company’s results, but at times even on its very survival. Putting off such an operation can in fact mean the loss of a significant component of shared experience. ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Caporarello Leonardo

Negotiation: How Important is Cultural Background?

An activity present in every human community and society, but carried out following norms, methods, and behavior that can be very different depending on different cultural backgrounds: this is how we could describe negotiation in an intercultural perspective. In a world of globalized business, in which organizations and professionals increasingly find themselves interacting with colleagues and ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Brechbühl Hans, Abbatemarco Nico

The Hidden Challenge of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation has brought many challenges to enterprises in the last ten years. The consumerization of information technology has produced a shift from traditional legacy user interfaces and software to the need for consumer-grade, user-friendly interfaces and experiences at work. The proliferation of mobile technologies and the internet of things has expanded boundaries far beyond the physical ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Meregalli Severino, De Rossi Leonardo Maria, Diaferia Lorenzo

How to Draw Value from Data in the Post-Digital Era

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently estimated that by the end of 2020, the total of data stored globally should reach the volume of 44 Zettabytes, which means having a quantity of bytes forty times greater than the number of stars in the universe. In the world of big data and digitalization, imaginative references such as those of the WEF on the growth of data volume have by now become ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Micacchi Lorenza, Valotti Giovanni

The Issue of Corporate Governance in Public Utilities

Public utilities, companies operating in the sectors of water, the environment, energy, and transport, have a profound impact on quality of life, being responsible for basic infrastructure and the provision of the main services in the collective interest of the population. In the history of our country, these companies grew in monopoly conditions, as a direct representation of the public entities ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Bilotta Nicola, Botti Fabrizio

Big Tech Finance between Efficiency and Market Choices

The banking industry is undergoing a process of deep transformation driven principally by technological innovations that at the same time have impacted not only the efficiency of the sector, but above all the competition involving various categories of new actors. In addition to challenger banks and fintech startups, the international market has seen the growth of big tech finance. Unlike the ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Miranda Lucio

Trade Opportunities and Possible Perils

Transatlantic trade and the rethinking of supply chains, to be less tilted towards China, have returned to the center of debate in America and Europe. There is a different environment, probably determined by the freezing of tariffs, that is inspiring trust both in Brussels and in markets and businesses.#Many financial analysts are of the opinion that the American economy is heading into a period of ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Cravera Alessandro

How to Exercise Leadership in Complex Contexts

The cultural model of the real exercise of leadership is still that of one person in control, with an array of followers. The concepts of leader and leadership are thus still associated with characteristics such as charisma, persuasive ability, assertiveness, and rapid actions and decisions. These are all abilities no longer appropriate to govern the complex reality in which organizations are immersed. ...